conference Gius. Longobardi 28-03-08

[Hans OBENAUER]

Le Groupe "Syntaxe formelle et dialectologie" et le Groupe "Types de phrases" ont le plaisir de vous rappeler la conference de

                             Giuseppe Longobardi
                             (Universite de Trieste)

      "Formal syntax as evidence of historical relatedness"

- DATE:
vendredi 28 mars 2008, 10:00 - 12:00

- LIEU:
CNRS UPS-Pouchet
Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage (SFL)
Salle de conferences
59, rue Pouchet
75017 Paris
(Métro : Guy Moquet ou Brochant; plan: <http://www.pouchet.cnrs.fr/plan.htm>)

Hans Obenauer

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Resume (debut)

"Beyond its theoretical success, the development of molecular biology
has brought about the possibility of extraordinary progress in the
historical study of classification/distribution of different species and
human populations (e.g. Cavalli Sforza, Menozzi and Piazza 1994).
Such developments have allowed human genetics to better contribute to
the common effort of archeology, philology, historical-comparative linguistics
toward the reconstruction of history and prehistory (the so-called
‘New Synthesis’). A crucial component of this effort aims at reconstructing
relationships among peoples, languages, and cultures.
We want to suggest that, even in the cognitive sciences, purely theoretical
progress in a certain discipline may in principle have analogous historical
impact and equally contribute to the New Synthesis in a renovated
perspective. The present research aims at establishing that the Principles
and Parameters models (Chomsky 1981) can prompt progress in the
study of the history and of the geographical distribution of language
families. To put the problem in context, notice that, from the second half
of the 19th century on, three different types of enterprises attempted to
classify languages or populations separated for centuries or millennia
into historically significant families [...]"

Pour le resume complet, voir le fichier .pdf joint "Longobardi_abstrParis_2008"
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